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   William James Sidis. Linguist and Mathematician. Sidis, named for family friend, Prof. William James, was born to Boris and Sarah, who were intellectuals in their own right. There are many instances of William's profound and precocious genius as a young boy.

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   William James Sidis ( / ˈsaɪdɪs /; April 1, 1898 – July 17, 1944) was an American child prodigy with exceptional mathematical and linguistic skills, for which he was active as a mathematician, linguist, historian, and author (whose works were published covertly due to never using his real name).

   • Other names: John W. Shattuck, Frank Folupa, Parker Greene, Jacob Marmor
   • Died: July 17, 1944 (aged 46), Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

   • Born: April 1, 1898, Manhattan, New York City, U.S.

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   • William James Sidis ( / ˈsaɪdɪs /; April 1, 1898 – July 17, 1944) was an American child prodigy with exceptional mathematical and linguistic skills, for which he was active as a mathematician, linguist, historian, and author (whose works were published covertly due to never using his real name).

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   How did William James Sidis die?

   • Sidis died in 1944 of a cerebral hemorrhage in Boston at the age of forty-six. His father had died of the same malady in 1923 at age fifty-six. Larry Neal Gowdy, Was William James Sidis the Smartest Man on Earth?

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   How old was William Sidis?

   • He was 46 years old. William Sidis remains the premiere case study of a "failed" child prodigy. Over the years, education experts, the media and everyday parents of non-prodigies have pointed fingers at Boris and Sarah for being too pushy, too concerned about their son's academics, and not worried enough about producing a well-rounded child.

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   How did William James Sidis become famous?

   • Sidis became famous first for his precocity and later for his eccentricity and withdrawal from public life. Eventually, he avoided mathematics altogether, writing on other subjects under a number of pseudonyms. William James Sidis was born to Jewish Ukrainian immigrants on April 1, 1898, in New York City.

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4. www.sidis.net › BioWilliamJamesSidisBio of William Sidis

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   Boston Herald, July 18, 1944. His death after a lifetime of press attention was international news. ----- The Hidden Genius New York Times, Wednesday, July 19, 1944, p.18 'Burnout' one last time.----- "Sidis' Boyhood Seen Case of All Work and No Play" by Alice Burke

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5. www.sidis.net › herald1919Boston Herald, May 4,1919 - Sidis

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   William James Sidis, who was graduated from Harvard at the age of 15, told Judge Albert F. Hayden in the Roxbury Municipal Court yesterday that he is a Socialist, a believer in the soviet form of government, that he believed in evolution, that he does not believe in a god, that his god is evolution, and that he believes in our form of ...

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   Feb 12, 2023 · William James Sidis, the man who could have changed the world, was the victim of his parents’ ambitions, media sensationalism, and political circumstances. All he wanted was to be left alone...

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   William James Sidis was born to Jewish Ukrainian immigrants on April 1, 1898, in New York City. His father, Boris Sidis, Ph.D., M.D., had emigrated in 1887 to escape political persecution. His mother, Sarah (Mandelbaum) Sidis, M.D., and her family had fled the pogroms in 1889. Sarah attended Boston University and graduated from its School of ...

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   May 26, 2021 · In it, William suggests the existence of what are now known as black holes. By then, though, the media had declared the one-time boy genius a bust. He retreated even more from the public eye. William James Sidis died of a cerebral bleed in 1944. He was 46 years old.